Various drafts of the anonymous memoirs, in Russian, of a member of the Narodnaya Volya party, discussing the author's life in Yaroslavl', his imprisonment in Moscow and St. Petersburg and his exile in Siberia in 1887-91.
Drafts of Russian Memoirs by a Member of the Naradnaya Volya Party
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- ReferenceGB 161 MSS. Russian d. 2, e. 2-8
- Dates of Creation[ca. 1880-91]
- Language of MaterialRussian.
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Administrative / Biographical History
The Narodnaya Volya party was a 19th-century Russian revolutionary organization that attempted to force political reform though terrorist activities.
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Acquisition Information
The memoirs were given to the Library anonymously in 1912.
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Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.
Other Finding Aids
M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. II, nos. 52316-23.